New York Post

Scare at squirrelly Milano's.

- By AARON FEIS afeis@nypost.com

A weekend 911 call to the California home of actress and “defund the police” supporter Alyssa Milano sparked a massive emergency response — over what proved to be someone shooting at squirrels with an air gun.

Seven Ventura County sheriff ’s vehicles, a K-9 unit, a police helicopter and a Los Angeles Fire Department unit descended on the “Charmed” star’s home Sunday morning, according to the Daily Mail.

“We first noticed the helicopter circling overhead very low and knew something was going on. It’s usually such a quiet community,” one of Milano’s neighbors told the outlet. “Then we saw all the police cars parked in front of Alyssa’s home. They had their guns at the ready and seemed very serious.”

A neighbor made the initial call to 911, and Milano’s talent-agent husband, Dave Bugliari, followed up, according to authoritie­s and a statement issued by Milano.

“On Sunday morning as we were all getting ready to watch the Giants game, our neighbor spotted ‘a man dressed in all black, walking in the woods between our properties with a gun,’ ” recalled Milano (pictured), 47, in the statement.

“As that is a rare sight in our parts, the neighbor was understand­ably alarmed and she called the police.

“We then received a call alerting us to the potential situation and that officers had been dispatched. My husband subsequent­ly called 911 to check on when police would be arriving. While he was on the line, they arrived.”

The couple reportedly told deputies that responding officers should look for a man in his 40s with a long rifle. After a roughly three-hour search, the small army of law-enforcemen­t profession­als concluded that the culprit was just shooting an air gun at squirrels.

No charges were filed or citations issued, according to a spokesman for the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department.

Over the summer, Milano was one of several celebritie­s and politician­s to voice support for the “defund the police” movement, which gained momentum following the Memorial Day death of George Floyd in Minneapoli­s while in police custody.

Milano in her statement praised the deputies’ response and clarified her position on policing.

“The responding officers were amazing and made my family and I feel safe and secure as we ‘sheltered in place’ until we knew exactly what was happening,” she said. “These are exactly the type of situations that police officers are trained for and should be responding to, and we will always support police having the resources they need for appropriat­e policing actions.

“We’d love to see equally trained non-police profession­als respond to addiction and mental-health crises and nonviolent events so that these brave officers can do the jobs they are so good at handling, as they demonstrat­ed this weekend.”

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